Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robbie Robertson

Some bands today have the experience of really working together and honing their craft. And other bands are very much like, 'I just got a guitar for Christmas, let's start a band.' And you can hear the difference.

Some central bankers perhaps are not seeing growth as strong as the survey data suggest.

shouldn't have to jump through hoops to get bankruptcy relief.

Similar to the way military bands play for the commander in chief, Mr. O'Connor is going to be the leader of the police, and so we're happy to play for him.

Signs of slowing growth and wages moving sideways rather than picking up, and of course the currency showing some signs of life, suggest that the Reserve Bank has probably administered enough monetary medicine for the time being.

She came up with a lot of big rebounds and defensive plays. She's our future star, a kid we're banking on to be our go to player. She really demonstrated that she has all the qualities and desire to be a great player.

She doesn't go down the chocolate aisle, but if she happens to pass one in the cosmetics section then that's great. That's what we are banking on to drive growth in the future.

Since we opened in 2002, every year our business has increased. So it's hard to say if it's increased because of the smoking ban or just because it has simply increased.

Since they are nonperforming assets, banks generally want to get them off their books as quickly as possible.

Sit on the bank of a river and wait: Your enemy's corpse will soon float by.

James Morgan

Most of these (pit bulls) you are banning (are) loving family pets.

Myron Scholes

Most of the time, your risk management works. With a systemic event such as the recent shocks following the collapse of Lehman Brothers, obviously the risk-management system of any one bank appears, after the fact, to be incomplete. We ended up where banks couldn't liquidate their risk, and the system tended to freeze up.

We have approached a point where we need to consider a gradual change in monetary policy. We share this view with the Finance Ministry. Monetary policy is based on economic growth, consumer prices and allocation of resources. The perception that the central bank would not raise interest rates had been prevalent, so I needed to send a signal not to shock the markets.

Gordon Brown

We have invited the commission and the ... bank to take forward technical work on a European support package, including discussions with other international partners to establish a loan guarantee scheme for small businesses,

We have heard of banks being slow, but we've had this pilot going for some time and we've not had any real problems. We've heard the stories but we haven't experienced it yet.

Brian May

The potential audience seems to be dwindling in the states. I was kind of embarrassed for the band because of the size of the audience.

We're looking to supply a complete managed solution that touches every aspect: security, quality of service, bandwidth requirements.

We're looking into what combination will produce the biggest bang for your buck.

Jonathan Richman

We rehearsed in the same place as Curt, so we saw him all the time and everything, but he wasn't in the band. It started out with just John Felice and me. I wrote to John from Israel saying I wanted to start a band when I got back home.

We're having a science fiction week in investment banking land. They're throwing so much out it's confusing the market.

This probe will reveal whether Poland had to change its banking sector this way over the last 17 years, or are there people who have erred. Surely, no foreign investor will be worse off because of it.

Craig Finn

There are things that we do that differentiate us from them. But look, if you're going to be compared to someone, then those are two of the greatest rock-and-roll bands ever, so I'm feeling pretty good.

There are the same sets of problems in Bangladesh now that Pakistan faced. Who is keeping an eye on these kids and what they are being taught?

Augusten Burroughs

But my favorite band is Curbside Life, out of Chicago.

Low inflation buys the Bank of Korea some time before the next rate hike.

Lots of people like going out for a pint and a smoke. So the ban has been a real strain for some people. I feel really sorry for some of the older regulars. I can nip outside to smoke no bother, but someone who's 80 and carries a walking stick isn't going to find it quite as easy.

Lots of people are moving to this band which stretches from the tip of Cornwall and comes through Belgium, covering a good part of Belgium and France, then going to Germany and then it will go through Austria and Hungary.

Last year, we had such a banner year, we can't say we're doing poorly.

Last year was a banner year. Digging probably won't be quite as good this year, but we'll still have a lot of clams to harvest.

Less than 5 percent of the population is using banking services. The growth opportunities for mortgages, car loans, consumer loans, are huge.

Less is more when it comes to color and annuals. Choosing a single color pattern carries a more dramatic visual impact than mixing and matching. And you can get more bang for the buck in terms of color and coverage by breaking the normal rules for potting and planting annuals that call for spacing them widely apart.

Many of the bank stocks that have been mentioned as takeover targets are underperformers that don't meet earnings expectations. We would not be chasing them.

Many of our banks have lent money to Brazil, and some of those loans may not look so good today after the devaluation as they did before. so banks will be hurt, or some banks will be hurt and the stockholders in those banks will be hurt.